THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

STATISTICAL ADVISORY UNIT

The Statistical Advisory Unit (StatAU) in the Department of Applied Mathematics runs both internal and external statistical consultancy and advisory services. Staff in the Department possess the experience and expertise to provide assistance and guidance on statistical matters, including:

    • survey methods and sample design
    • questionnaire design
    • opinion poll
    • quality control
    • reliability
    • survival analysis
    • non-parametric inference
    • stochastic scheduling
    • simulation
    • model fitting and data analysis
    • meta-analysis
    • medical statistics
    • design of experimental
    • mortality analysis
    • forecasting by neral network
    • financial time series analysis
    • time series with changing conditional variance (ARCH and GARCH)
    • econometric modelling

Examples of past and existing consultancy projects:

  • Household energy end use consumption estimation
  • Energy efficiency factorization
  • Energy consumption forecast modelling
  • Transport energy consumption study
  • Thematic Household Survey
  • Coverage analysis of satellite broadcasting via Direct-To-Home (DTH) System
  • Housing recurrent survey
  • Survey on porpensity to use private cars to cross the Boundary
  • FEHD Public Toilet customer satisfaction survey
  • Public transport services and facilities study at boundary control points

 

Enquiries in relation to statistical consultative and advisory services should be addressed to Dr. Marjorie Chiu, Co-ordinator of StatAU in the Department of Applied Mathematics (Fax : 2362 9045, Email : mastatau@inet.polyu.edu.hk).

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Last updated September 2011